A joint Italian and Tunisian archaeological project began in 2002 in the area around the
Sebkhet Halk el Menjel, a lagoon close to the village of Hergla, on the central eastern coast …

The cave opens on a cliff at about 500 m from the modern coastline. The excavations
discovered an impressive archaeological deposit, evidencing human frequentation from the …

Grotta Schiacciata is a prehistoric cave site on the island of Levanzo, off the NW coast of
Sicily. Four trenches were excavated in 1951-52, leading to the recovery of abundant lithic …

Land snail exploitation is widely documented in Late Pleistocene and, mainly, in early
Holocene archaeological deposits throughout the circum-Mediterranean region (Lubell …

Understanding the transformations of the climate system may help to predict and reduce the
effects of global climate change. The geological record provides a unique archive that …

Eighteen gastropod and five bivalve species are taxonomically described from an Upper
Oligocene succession cropping out near Otranto (southern Salento, Apulia, Italy). Among …

Molluscs often have quite specific environmental requirements (Evans 1978, 82; Giusti et al.
1995; Schembri et al. 2018). Many species require only a few square metres of habitat, so …

This paper presents research aimed at identifying the methods with which prehistoric man
interacted with marine and inland water environments. The objective is to determine the …

This paper focuses on the exploitation of marine mollusks within a cultural and an ecological
context, from the archaeological excavations in the prehistoric sites in the Cantabrian …

ABSTRACT The Balearic Islands were the last large islands in the Mediterranean to be
settled, with colonization not occurring until the third millennium cal BC. The richest …